Coronavirus outcome in the UK has not been good, admits chief scientific adviser

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Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, has admitted the UK has not had a good outcome from the coronavirus pandemic. Speaking to MPs on the Commons science and technology

Sir Patrick Vallance, the government’s chief scientific adviser, has admitted the UK has not had a good outcome from the coronavirus pandemic.

 

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GIGO

45,000 people in the UK have died from Covid-19 divided into 300,000 infections = 1 person has died from over 6 infections. Worldwide, 13,000,000 infections divided by 500,000 deaths = 1 person has died in every 26 infections. Is the NHS committing unnecessary covid deaths?

Sir Vallance gives the impression that Sage was a mere advice group on the sideline but Cummings was present at many of the Sage meetings...

No sht Sherlock

Too bad.

In other news, rain discovered to be wet.

Tory MPs: Our effort was world leading, our approach was world beating. The results are the worlds greatest. Our testing is unmatched

No shit Sherlock

Does the Pope have a tendency toward Catholicism, does a bear use the park for defecation purposes?🤔 statethebleedingobvious

Not good! It’s been a nightmare made worse by inept government!

No shit Sherlock. Worst government in living memory with worst opposition under Saint Kier Starmer

elizabethf100 In BrexitBritain, worst global COVID19 response (AFTER being caught hiding 20k+ bodies in May) is summed up by “not been good”. What will “adequate” mean w/ regard to medical supplies after Brexit? R there no decent Conservative MPs willing to resist such malign incompetence?

skylar_mackenzi Thailand's end result was just over 3300 covid-19 cases 58 people lost there life's and only 67 are still remaining in Hospital, the Thai government was right on the ball and kept 67 million people safe, of course this is good governance and not a shambolic lot like the UK PM

skylar_mackenzi The UK government totally mishandled the virus outbreak and no one else to blame, Thailand has millions of Chinese visitors every year and is very close to China, they stopped all flights closed all borders and go in lockdown right away people been checked Population 67 million

So shielding ends and everyone is told to get back to the office even though they were working safely at home, leaving thousands of vulnerable people back out mixing with everyone else.

The solipsism is palpable.

If he appeared on Mastermind would his specialist subject be 'stating the bleeding obvious'?

Kind of late admitting !!!!!!!!

Captain Obvious is back ... in the hit sequel ‘No Shit Sherlock’

But your paper let's the Tories away with it

No shut Sherlock

Yet we’ve been world leading - according to Boris

Spoiler alert

No shit Sherlock

The nation needs to hear this said by BorisJohnson and MattHancock. Science did not let us down, our governments willingness to listen to it did. BorisHasFailedUK

The no shit Sherlock comes to mind,

His specialist subject on Mastermind..? 'The bleeding obvious'

billberg1

Classic British understatement of modern times.

milmolaman

Yeah; 'the Titanic lifeboat situation has not been good' says White Star spokesman

No fucking shit

A perceptive man that Prof Vallance

MikeBladenBlake

It’s pretty much world beating and world leading. For all the wrong reason AZ

Well that inspires confidence! Who guides us now? Why not follow the example of those countries who were successful. We rely on the govt and it's advisors to get us through this without the losses we are suffering

No shit Sherlock

You think?!

Understating it somewhat I think!

Isnt that a fucking understatement

No shit Sherlock, I think the great British public had worked that one out for themselves uksciencechief

The scientist has done some science!

Filed under NSS...

It has been a disaster due to poor advice from PHE and an incompetent government

Obviously got his job because of his powers of deduction. I bet Sherlock is shitting it in Baker Street!

England!

No shit Sherlock

Understatement to say the least.

No shit.

Is this because he now wants to distance himself from a failing corrupt bunch of charlatans?

No shit

No fucking shit

No shit Sherlock!

In other news, water is wet.

And now watch the govt trying to discredit him by blaming him and unleashing their brexiter/tory bulldogs

And he’s one of those responsible

In other news, the sky is blue

The truth coming out....

Getaway.

But the PM said many other countries were looking enviously at the UK's world-beating success at handling the virus. How is this possible?

It's insight and analysis like this which gets him the big bucks

Listen to science, Johnson, you chancer

No Shit,Sherlock!

World-beatingly not good?

Something for Starmer's list of things for next weeks PMQs (if there is one due to summer recess).

‘Apparent success’ ‘our plan is working’

Shout

What really.....? I mean who knew!

NRS 5th July Scotland 4867 excess deaths 973/m ONS England and Wales 58873 excess deaths 950/m Number 1and 2 in the world. C19 strategy/Masks/app / economic planning and New Governments required? New Zealand an island nation like us Pop 5m Deaths 22.

No 👏 Shit 👏Sherlock👏

No shit Sherlock 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

And the 'No shit, Sherlock' award 2020 goes to.....

Hricho151 In other news, the sun will rise in the morning. Talk about stating the obvious.

BRAND NEW INFORMATION. How did I not realise this before -_-

No s*** Sherlock!!!

Hricho151 Herd immunity, let the virus run through us, take it on the chin, but whack-a-mole. Ffs get a grip!

And he didnt make the decisions, johndonsnd Cummkngs did. But hes going to take the blame.

.. No $hit Sherlick!!

WE KNOW. WE LIVE HERE.

Wouldn't it be so much better if he said 'I am sorry, the corona virus outcome in the UK has not been as good as it should have been'.

'Not good' is what Obi Wan says when Jango Fett lassoes his feet. Coronavirus in England is at the part of Star Wars where Darth Vader's helmet is being lowered onto his charred face.

He's also the Chief of understatements

That's because we have a government like this 👇

Slight understatement.... COVID19 coronavirus coronavirusuk Covid_19 NHSheroes NHSThankYou NHSMillion keepnhspublic P_H_S_Official

Not a scientific adviser, but rather than 'not good', I prefer terming sending older patients back into care homes, resulting in them infecting more older patients, and leading to tens of thousands of deaths as 'might have seriously fucked this one up and murdered the elderly'

Jesus. Kind of an understatement. What a genius.

breaking news: grass is green

All in vain.

Wait for all the anti brexit tory haters to start blaming the government as if any other could do better.

Didn’t really need this to be confirmed. The Government (and Cummings) left us to fend for ourselves; left the NHS short of PPE; made rules for us (not Cummings and Johnson Sr) and has failed infesting and track and trace. BorisHasFailedTheUK

In other news, water is wet.

No shit sherlock

So let’s blame China, buy and support local and get out there to gain immut.

No shit Sherlock!!!

And like everything else regarding this in the UK but mainly England, this has come too late.

Understatement of the century

No fucking shit

no shit!

Nae shit Sherlock

The government continues to ignore our call for a meeting to share our stories of loss and grief. Our primary objective is to save others from the same fate - why don’t they want to listen? CovidJusticeUk CovidInquiryNow

Not been good..utterly horrific! And he is partly responsible!

Grass is in fact, green. More on this breaking story as it develops.

This is not the time to be all coy and .... British. I want superlatives!!

Chief Scientific Adviser not been good either

SoVeryBritish Feels like an email he'd end with 'Regards' rather than 'Best regards'...

And the award for pointing out the fucking obvious goes to .......

Thanks mate

No shit Sherlock 🕵️‍♂️

No shit sherlock

The government are either following his advice (like they claim) in which case he’s to blame. Or they are ignoring him in which case he’s a fucking coward.

'Not been good '🤔 Why can't he just say what we're all thinking now. The Coronavirus outcome in the UK has been absolutely heartbreaking/awful/bad.

From an immunologist in Bern Switzerland, and colleague of Anthony Fauci.

Ya don't say...

More importantly now is whether we are any better prepared for the next wave. Has our Government learned anything - sadly I doubt it.

Things that didn’t age well......🤡

HUGE if true.

No good Surely, they mean shite?

No shit Sherlock.

Well there I was thinking that ignoring WHO’s coronavirus warning in January, locking down too late, allowing over 20m to enter UK without quarantine and failing to reach testing targets meant that the handling of COVID19 is a success, but maybe I’m an idiot to think that.

I know he’s saying the obvious but how refreshing to hear the truth actually spoken out loud by someone who is implicated!

I think it has been Russia's fault. Like everything else what goes wrong, or to nowhere, in UK. wktt_5

In other news, sun is hot .

No shit

sampilgrim2 But I thought we had handled it all brilliantly and were the envy of the world?!?!!

They wasted billions on a hoax

Understatement of the century

Exercise Cygnus - why did Conservatives hide it...

UK? I think you mean 'England'

It's been a fecking disaster is more of an apt phrase.

Bear shits in woods. Everyone steps back in amazement......

No shit, Sherlock...

Why are Brits always so indirect? Why say 'not good' instead of 'bad'? 'Bad' is already an understatement anyway. 'Disgraceful' and 'heartbreaking' are more apt.

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Wow, really, we would never have known.

No shit Sherlock.

Yes more people are realising they have been taken for suckers in the covid hoax

Not been good is a euphemism for mind numbingly poor ?

But it’s been world-beating!

BREAKING: A bear-like creature has defecated in a local wood. More to follow.

Even late with that discovery.

Putting it mildly 🙄

No 💩

Err england thankyou and that is a massive understatement and quite frankly an insult to the 500 nhs and the over 70k who have needlessly died !

Well duh!

Hardly breaking news

you mean in England

Sherlock Holmes has got nothing on this guy

Does ‘not good’ relate in any way to ‘bad’?

The epitome of not breaking news

how many lifes would off be saved 😢

hold the front page

No shit

And water is wet.

Understatement of the year.

Give that man a lollipop, that was almost the truth!

You what? No way!

Biggest understatement of the year.

How many deaths would be considered 'good'?

No shit mate

No shylock really

MimiAi You don’t say

Vallance did not strike the right balance.

Come back when there is a test for Covid.

A bit of an understatement....🤔😒

No sh*t!

No good news on it?

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